Word: ropers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time since he took office Franklin Roosevelt had to use his Presidential power to fire a member of his sub-Cabinet. The officer who refused to honor the customary request for a resignation was Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ewing Young Mitchell, attorney and anti-machine Democrat from Missouri. Secretary Roper issued a soapy explanation that an engineer rather than a lawyer was required for the .job. got the President to appoint Engineer John Monroe Johnson from Mr. Roper's own South Carolina as Assistant Secretary. Two days after the ouster Attorney Mitchell charged that. "improper favoritism and graft abound...
Last week Secretary of Commerce Roper made public his Department's report on the accident. Based on two weeks of hearings in which 59 witnesses filled 907 pages of testimony, the report blamed the crash principally on bad weather and inaccurate weather reporting by government and company meteorologists, found TWA guilty of five "inexcusable violations" of Federal airline regulations for which it may be fined a maximum of $2,500-the first such fine in U. S. airline history...
...subject of utility holding companies nearly everyone had had his say. Franklin Roosevelt had asked for what practically amounted to their abolition. Powermen and investors had wrung their hands in loud anguish. Senator Wheeler had favorably reported the bill. Secretary Roper's Business Advisory Council had counseled moderation. Senator Norris had lectured the Senate with giant charts showing the tentacles of the power octopus. Young Legalites Corcoran and Cohen, who drafted the bill, had given their advice privily in the cloakrooms. The whole Senate had enjoyed ten days of debate. Wiseacres sensed that 67 proposed amendments would soon...
Notable was the official opening fanfare. Secretary of Commerce Roper was on hand to hope that the Federal exhibit would be ''of educational value to the country." Undersecretary of State Phillips assured California that out of Japan's commercial invasion of the U. S. would come "a cooperative solution." Postmaster General Farley struck off a big 3? commemorative stamp which was sure to get him into more philatelic hot water because the most prominent feature was the Ford building. And at 8 p. m. on opening day, President Roosevelt from Washington radioed that he hoped...
...Franklin Roosevelt once more had forced on him two ticklish and related questions: How to keep business satisfied without yielding to its desires, and how to permit business to let off its critical steam without busting out in open denunciation of the New Deal. Fortnight ago Secretary Roper's Advisory & Planning Council of 50 tycoons came in handy when the President used its call on him as evidence that the critical Chamber of Commerce did not represent the reaction of business to the New Deal, but last week the 50 tycoons had to be placated. Council Chairman Henry Plimpton...